A 20th century fall

It's the mid-1960s, and Walter Selby is living the American dream or so he thinks. A decorated World War II veteran, he has a beautiful wife and children and an important job as the right-hand man to the governor of Tennessee. Selby seems to have everything going for him, but on the first page of Jim Lewis' new novel, The King Is Dead, his dream starts to crumble. He comes home early,...